by Katherine Paterson · Santillana Educación, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420468846
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«La gran Gilly Hopkins» is Katherine Paterson's young adult novel, published by Santillana Educación in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Gilly Hopkins is a girl living in a foster home trying to find her place. The story portrays her family and personal conflicts, and addresses identity, belonging, and the importance of emotional bonds.
The original work, The Great Gilly Hopkins, was published in 1978 and won the National Book Award, in addition to being nominated for the Newbery Medal.
Recommended for young readers and preteens, especially for those seeking realistic stories about family and identity.
Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
